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( Applicntion led Dec. 12, 1901.)

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vUINIIIED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MIRoN PHILLIPS, oF sPEARvILLE, KANSAS.

CU LTlVATOR-SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,417, dated March 4, 1902. Application filed December 12, 1901. Serial No. 85,662. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MIRON PHIL- LIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spearville, in the county of Ford and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Cultivator-Shovel, of which the following is a specication.

This invention is an improved shovel forv attached to the foot or standard of a cultivating-plow. Fig. 2 isaside or edge elevation of the same. Fig. 3 isa perspective view of a modified form of my improved cultivatingshovel. Fig. 4 is a side'or edge elevation of the same.

My improved cultivator-shovel is preferably oblong and of rectangular form, with its side edges o. parallel or substantially parallel with each other and its lower cutting edge b ,at right angles to the axis of the shovel, so

that when in operation the lower cutting edge h is maintained in a horizontal position below the surface of the soil. of the shovel are formed outwardly-extending pulverizing-points c, which are preferably of rectangular form, as here shown; but I do not limit myself in this particular.

In operation myimproved cultivator-shovel makes a square cut in the soil, and the outwardly-projecting points Ythoroughlypulverize the soil. The cultivating-shovel may, as here shown, be attached to the footorstandard 1 of a cultivator-plow by means of .bolts 2; but any other. means may be employed for attaching the shovel to the foot or standard, and I do not limit myself in this particular. It will be understood that the shovel At the lower corners p may by the usual means employed be so 'connected to the foot or shovel as to be disposed at any desired angle with relation to the line of draft, either at right angles thereto or 0bliquely.

In the modified form of myinvention shown in Figs. 3 and 4 one of the upper corners of the shovel is curved forwardly, as at d, hence disposing the upper edge Ac at an angle with reference to the lower edge b of the shovel. By thus projecting one of the upper corners forwardly the eiciency of the shovel is increased, and the same more readily clears itself of the soil.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A cultivator-shovel of rectangular form, having its lower cutting edge substantially at right. angles to its axis, and provided at its lower corners with outwardly-projectingpulverizing-points, substantially as described.

2. A cultvator-shovel having parallel side edges, a lower cutting edge adapted to run horizontally in the soil and outwardly-projecting pulverizing-points at its lower corners, substantially as described.

3. Acultivator-shovel having a lower, substantially horizontal cutting edge, and outwardlyprojecting pulVerizing-points at its lower corners, substantiallypas described.

4:. A cultivator-shovel having outwardlyprojecting rectangular pulverizing-points at its sides, substantially as described.

5. A cultivator-shovel of rectangular form having outwardly-projecting pulverizingpoints at its lower corners and having one of its upper'corners curved forwardly, so that the upper edge `of the cultivator-shovel is obliquely disposed with reference to the lower edge thereof, substantially as described.`

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. -1

HENRY MIRON PHILLIPS. Witnesses: i

J. R. BAIRD, H. W. Donsnrr. 

